What's everyone playing at the moment?

Just Cause 2. I actually finished the story of this, last night! :) Still a game I can put on to dick around in. It's taken a disappointing amount of time for a sequel to roll around. I'm messing around in Mercenary Mode - currently sitting at 70.4% completed.

Alien Isolation. Been stuck in Medical for the best part of ten days. Starting to shout "Bullshit!" at the screen a lot. It's evocative, but this section, with massive stretches with no save points, should earn someone a punch in the bollocks.

Destiny (360). Played up to around level 24. Really enjoyed it, and I might be the only person claiming it doesn't make me think of Halo. Which is good, because my opinion on that is well known around here. It's shit. (Just in case you're new.) Suddenly hit a wall in which I'm struggling to enthuse over replaying things (for little reward) ad nauseum. Had a laugh at the pitiful reveal of the dlc... £20 for that? Do one.

Titanfall. Might be the only online fps I've ever been good at. Routinely MVP (which has NEVER happened, in all my years of being an easy target for the enemy). It's good, but I regret buying the Season Pass. The second set of DLC maps adamantly refuses to play. Never seen them.

Sniper Elite 3. The Churchill DLC was a mix: the first one was weak, but they got better and better. Pricing of DLC guns stinks, but I still like this one a great deal. I think it finally eclipsed two, for me.

MGS: Ground Zero. Way better than I thought; love the side ops which have opened up. I also like the fact I'm not wading through exposition. Kojima, you say it best when you say nothing at all.

Assassin's Creed 4. Best since the original. Just adore the piracy angle.

Watchdogs. Yeah, it's quite good. It does make me wish for a new console, but I might look into that, cash permitting, some time next year. Waiting to see how The Division pans out. Still not sure which console I'll go for.

Oh and for your obligatory "Who plays that shit? Oh yeah, RMJ" item: Payday 2 on the 360. Amazingly, it's been given a patch, and some dlc, a year on from them giving up promising it was coming. This game could have been something very special... it seems to be on PC.

repairmanjack said:
Destiny (360). Played up to around level 24. Really enjoyed it, and I might be the only person claiming it doesn't make me think of Halo. Which is good, because my opinion on that is well known around here. It's shit. (Just in case you're new.) Suddenly hit a wall in which I'm struggling to enthuse over replaying things (for little reward) ad nauseum. Had a laugh at the pitiful reveal of the dlc... £20 for that? Do one.

Saw the story about the DLC earlier. Apparently also the XBox DLC has even less content than the PS version too because Sony have an exclusivity deal bagging them some extra content until late next year. The thing I don't get is that if Acti/Bungie really see this as a 'ten year project' then why would you piss off so many customers just a few months into that, particularly when many of them are somewhat pissed off already for the game not entirely living up to the hype? Absolutely baffling decision - I predict we'll see a price drop pretty soon.

I've been playing Forza Horizon 1 on and off for the past couple of months, nearing the end now (on the final set of races). It's not without its flaws but is still pretty much the best semi-realistic racing game I've played. There's so much to love about the setting and open-world structure, and I even like the story and the way it's fed through the game. So yeah, it's pretty much convinced me to get an Xbox One at some point to play the sequel.

Before that I was playing Deus Ex: Human Revolution over the summer. After an iffy start I was really enjoying it, makes great use of the Wii U's gamepad, but I kinda stopped (I think) about two-thirds of the way through - need to get back and finish that off.

Also got Bayonetta 2 SE - not actually started the sequel yet but played a bit of the first (again). Seems much fiddlier than I remember, but obviously it's a game that needs practice. Should probably get cracking on with the sequel really.

Collecting star coins in Luigi U which I'm still enjoying in the compressed levels.

And Shadowrun Returns. I've not played a text heavy RPG for ages, and wasn't sure I'd be in to it but it swallowed up my Sunday morning. Takes me back to my Cyberpunk tabletop days, looking forward to my next chance to play some.

Yeah, really can't quibble about the quality of the DLC, it's fantastic. Not so sure about the Zelda track (more for the course layout than the theme, which is obviously great), but Mute City and Wario's Gold Mine are absolute aces. As is the dragon one. And the Yoshi one. And the icy one isn't bad either.

The only thing I'm slightly disappointed with - and I know this is a bit churlish - is that they didn't include any content that really allows you to get some extra value from the content in the original game. I was hoping for something like a 200cc mode, or something like the Diddy Kong Racing coin collecting modes. I dunno, just something to make me want to revisit the original tracks beyond having a few new characters and karts.

LittleBigPlanet 3 for me. Initial impressions weren't good at all. Stuttering intro vids and voice that made Stephen Fry sound like Max Headroom didn't exactly fill me with confidence that Sumo had picked up chief development duties and run with 'em.

Into the game though after a day one patch (which addressed the game breaking bug of not letting you move during the intro - how the fuck did they miss THAT one!) and it's LBP quadrupled in size and given a ton of gloss. As with other entries in the series, it's all about the creative mode as the adventure campaign is really short (but does at least showcase some brilliant ideas to try out in your own creations).

Create Mode really gives you tons of new stuff to play with, the level depth has increased to 16 (which is actually incredibly daunting TBH!)

All in all, it's a huge time consuming beast of a game that I doubt many here will bother with (Syrok? You're my only hope!)

Oh one more thing - the new characters don't do it for me. Seems a bit of a waste of time to even include them as they're so underused.

So I have one of these PlayStation 4 things now, so first on my list is the Last of Us remaster (I never played the original because my PS3 gave up the ghost before it came out) - seems nice so far, I'd forgotten how good Naughty Dog's direction and animation systems are, really nice stuff. I'm also quite taken with Resogun - as well as the shiny I really like the rescuing the humans dynamic, which always gives you something extra to be thinking about in addition to shooting stuff. I bought Octodad in the Black Friday sale as well, as I've always wanted to play it - it's great slapstick fun so far.

I also have a load of PS+ stuff to be getting on with, some of which, like Hohokum and Velocity 2X, are games I've already played on the Vita but not quite polished off.

Oh, and I'm also playing The Banner Saga and Monument Valley: Forgotten Shores on the iPad. Plenty to be getting on with then!

The latest patch (1.3 - which arrived last night) seems to have resolved a few things. Still a bit baffled by the complete lack of sounds for create mode though. You get about 3 groups under the one sound item there (mostly mechanical clanky stuff), no animal or human sounds - which makes building levels a bit tricky.

Thankfully all the issues with multi-hub levels seem to have been sorted out and the network co op stuff too. Definitely could've done with being in this state a week ago though.

I'm trying to work out if you're being sarky or not :) I rather liked the time I spent with the demo but after being burned by the launch bugs in a couple of games I decided to wait till it had tidied itself up a tad. I take it the beta really was unrepresentative of the actual game then?

I've been playing it all weekend, it's utterly superb. By virtue of being loosely based on real world USA it has the most interesting open world map yet. The prospect of just doing epic scenic roadtrips was enough to get me interested, but the actual game is pretty good too.

Judging from the beta is like judging world of warcraft with a level 2 character. The cars handle loosely in the beginning, but you improve them through racing and other missions to get better parts that improve speed, handling, braking, etc.

As someone on GAF said, this isn't a racing game with only 57 cars, it's a car-rpg with 57 different characters to level up.

The mini challenges (that are all easily restartable) are numerous and fun. The fast travel options are great. Once you get your cars to level 100+ they handle nicely enough and only improve from there.

Still suffering from the appalling bugs in LBP3 - Even post 1.3 patch some really stupid stuff is happening. I built a level (with my daughter) which played nicely. Post publishing though, the level just jets you straight to the finish as soon as you start it (which definitely is NOT the intention). Now it's broken both on the Earth and the Moon. Infuriating.

So they've fixed the single player mode, and f****d the very reason for buying LBP3 in the first place, the creative mode.

It's nudged Alien Isolation aside for top honours as the most disappointing release of the year and pretty much puts the nail in the coffin of me ever buying another in the series. What a shame.

Takes everything Far Cry 3 did right and improves on it. Looks fantastic and plays great. I love the little helicopter you get to fly around in. Makes exploring Kyrat a pleasurable experience indeed! Played 20 hours so far and haven't even unlocked the northern part of the map. The story is much better than FC3 but anything to do with Shangri-La has been rubbish. I'm hoping there won't be anymore of those missions in the main campaign but I fear I have more to come. Still the rest of the game is superb. I'm looking forward to taking out a few outposts in co-op.

Driveclub

I'd have got this on launch if it wasn't for all the network problems but once it dropped to £30 on Amazon I thought I may as well pick it up. Glad I did as it is a fantastic racing game. The graphics are great especially the weather and lighting effects which are stunning. The car handling is more arcade than sim and the ai is a little bit robust to say the least but I'm having loads of fun with this. The challenges are extremely addictive and will add longevity to the game long after the career mode has been completed. Course design is top notch too. Sony dropped a massive bollock releasing Driveclub in the state in was in but with the bugs ironed out and the dynamic weather added it is one the best games on the PS4.

LEGO Batman 3 - PS4

No surprise that I think this is awesome. No open world Gotham in this but a series of hubs to explore for each of the main locations in the game. This is just a further refinement of the LEGO formula which is exactly what big fans of the series like me are after.

Took a leap of faith on Frod's recommendation of "The Crew" after getting a lot of enjoyment out of the demo and it really IS excellent. Far from being a bunch of boring missions, it's quite varied and a lot of fun when you start to ramp up the spec on your cars (opted to avoid the yank muscle stuff and went mostly for imports including the awesome GTR)

A lot of the fun comes from the exploration, the playable map is HUGE (alright it's a scaled down version of North America but still fairly fun to tool around in cities I've been to, even though quite a few liberties are taken with road layouts etc).

Really enjoying it though. If you're wavering over picking it up, get it when the price drops and you'll get a lot of solid enjoyment out of it.